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SMS – Short Message Service is very effective and quick way of communication. Your app may need to support certain use-cases wherein you have to send an SMS to someone. Adding SMS capabilities in your Android app is relatively straightforward, simply follow the following steps:

Step 1: Create the project

This is the simplest step of them all. Just go to your project wizard and create a new project with the following details:

Use a pending intent to broadcast the message. Present an error message using a Toast (alert) is if a message or a phone number is not provided. Finally, send the SMS message we use SmsManager in a user-defined function sendSms as follows:

And that is all you need to do to send an SMS using Android API. You can use this to create all sorts of interesting applications e.g. you can create an application for assigning tasks to your employees with a feature that allows sending a text message to them as reminders.